Gary Garrabrant

Chief Executive Officer, Equity International Properties, Ltd.

Garrabrant has extensive real estate, investment management and banking experience. He led the acquisition of California Real Estate Investment Trust and the creation of Capital Trust where he served as vice chairman and director. He was also involved in the consolidation of the four Zell/Merrill Lynch Opportunity Funds, which led to the creation of Equity Office Properties Trust. Prior to joining EGI in 1996, -Garrabrant co-founded and led Genesis Realty Capital Management, a real estate securities investment management firm based in New York. Garrabrant was a senior real estate investment banker with Chemical Bank followed by The Bankers Trust Company from 1981–94.

Garrabrant is vice chairman and director of Homex and is a director of NH Hoteles and Gafisa. He is also a member of the Real Estate Advisory Board at Cambridge University. His daughter, Elizabeth, graduated from Notre Dame in 2007.

Garrabrant graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1979
with a BBA in finance and completed the Dartmouth Institute at Dartmouth College.